For a syntactically friendlier option there's METAPOST, see: https://www.learnmetapost.com/ https://www.learnmetapost.com/ that said, even MP wasn't friendly

For a syntactically friendlier option there's METAPOST, see: https://www.learnmetapost.com/ https://www.learnmetapost.com/ that said, even MP wasn't friendly enough, hence the development of other options such as PGF and TikZ.